Salamèche

We Move in Close Circles, a performance for homes

We are currently touring We Move in Close Circles, a performance made with Sam Pardes and Orley Quick. The work takes place in people’s homes, and responds to a widespread culture of controlling invitation, over-hosting and weaponised care.

Visit the project page here.

Demonology, a book and an exhibition

We have invited twenty friends from around the world to help us write a Demonology: a book of demonic wisdom that reflect on our most unflattering feeling, and cuts to the ugly heart of what it means to live with oneself and others.

It exists as a series of limited edition handprinted books. We are developing the work into a series of risograph zines, and a touring exhibition.

Visit the project page here.

The only decision I have is when to stop, a chapbook of poems and a spoken-word performance

The only decision is a body of writing generated through the predictive text function on our phones. The texts uncomfortably expose our most frequent sentiments: our anxieties around perpetually running late, our worrying dependency on social media, and our endless promises to do better in the future.

Teetering at the edge of legibility, these texts evoke the existential crises that are continually held at bay through our banal platitudes.

Better Out Than In, an archival book

In 2023 we marked our tenth year of working together. To document this decade of collaborative practice, we started making a book to expose and preserve many of our mistakes.

Alongside a sprawling array of unflattering archival materials, Better Out Than In will feature a number of original texts through which we will reflect on inter-disciplinary and infra-institutional practice, and how we have gone about maintaining our long-term relationship. These materials from our own practice will sit alongside invited reflections (and grievances) from our community of peers, mentors and collaborators.